About Random Reflexions
This is my, Simon Shareef's, personal blog - a random collection of reflexions on life, society, politics, nation, science, religion and sometimes family. The blog plays two key roles for me: it provides a platform to express my opinions and improve writing skills.
It first saw light in November 2004 on the paid blogging service called Typepad. Back then it's title was The Finite Improbability Drive. The title was based on the Infinite Improbability Drive that Douglas Adams talks about in The Hitchhiker's Guide.
Shortly before the paid hosting expired it was moved to the my own domain at www.simonshareef.com conveniently tucked inside the folder /blog/. During this time the title of the blog was also changed to Ramdom Reflexions and several design changes ensued. The last of which has been online for a little less than a year.
The title "Random Reflexions" was chosen as it was seen to be much more fitting of my writings on the blog. And besides it was easier to say and remember.
On the 2nd of July 2007 it was moved to its own domain carrying the title of the blog at www.randomreflexions.com with several new enhancements and changes to the design.
About the Contents
This is a personal site and the thoughts and opinions expressed here are entirely my own. This site is in no way connected with any organisation, religious group, my own family or a terrorist organisation - past and present. I take full responsibility to every word on the entries in this blog. The contents of comments are owned by their respective commenters. While I can take quite a bit of verbal abuse and personal attacks, I will edit and sometimes delete comments that I feel goes beyond a certain level in order to protect myself and other readers.
If you have any thoughts on this or any of the entries on this blog please use the Contact form to get in touch with me directly (and anonymously).
About the Author
Simon Shareef is a computer programmer by training, an avid reader and aspiring writer by choice. Much of his professional life was spent working as a freelance programmer. He lives with his wife, son and daughter in an apartment in the capital Male' of the Maldive Islands.
He now aspires to write a book before he turns 40 - seven years to go and counting.
If you'd like to get in touch with him please do so for whatever the reason.
Technical Details
This blog is powered by version 4.21-en of the all-powerful Movable Type blog software system by Six Apart. This is the only MT powered blog in the MV Blogosphere that I know of. The templates were custom created by me and is titled "Dawn" (although I suspect the photo is of dawn). The design was initially done in Photoshop CS then translated to CSS.
If you are interested in a Movable Type powered blog contact me.
The background photograph was kindly provided by Ahmed Zahid who has the full copyright and my utmost gratitude for allowing me to use it on this blog.
Parts of the blog has been updated and new features added (last updated 02-July-2007):
- Comment previewing slide effect using the cool Mootools javascript library
- Tags of related entries on every entry
- Tag search via www.randomreflexions.com/tag/tagname (go on, give it a try)
- Automatically generated warning notice on posts that maybe sensitive (based on tag)
- Addition of the About page
- Addition of the full archives page - chronologically ordered
- Addition of the contact page
Some blog statistics:
Total number of published entries: 273
Total number of comments: 3223